simpletom
10-28-2007, 06:59 PM
Hey i thaught i would post as ive been watching this forum for a while and read many topics on different areas to leveling software etc, Im a new boxer i got my new laptop about 5 days ago, and it has the power to run 3 accounts. Im currently leveling 3 warlocks on Daggerspine EU ill keep you updated with my progress. And i hope that i can get some advice from others to anything im doing wrong, and would also hope that this post is of some use to anyone starting out.
Ive been playing wow since launch i already had a very good knowledge of the games mechanics.
problems i first ran into was on my old computer way too slow for this so if your going to try this make sure that your computer can handle running your desired amount of accounts i chose 3 simply due to the cost of keeping them active each month.
If you want to know if your computer can handle it or not make some trial accounts, they last ten days but you should know in the first 10 minutes of play if your computer can handle it.
EU gamers
https://signup.wow-europe.com/agreement.html;jsessionid=101a
US gamers
https://signup.worldofwarcraft.com/trial/10dayfreetrial.htm
Ok so now you know your computer will run your game, chooseing the class. here are some key factors to help you pick.
1/ previous knowledge, its going to help you make the right choice as leveling a class you have never played 2 or more times could back fire if you spend 10 days playing then deside that the class isnt what you expected.
2/ caster over melee, i felt this way purly becuase i didnt want the hassle of keeping 3 characters in melee range.
i chose warlock heres why.
1/ they all buff each other very nicely for example curse of shadows from one warlock will buff all 3's dps, also the improved life drain gives a warlock 5% more damage per affliction effect up to 60% might not sound alot but it will add up.
2/ pets can be a great asset, not kiteing etc my 3 warlocks had no problems clearing up the level 16 elites before DM at the same level with 2 voids tanking.
3/ pvp warlocks are deadly and as thats my main goal my own 3v3 team, ive never really liked depending on others in arena.
Ok next was the set up i dont know if keyclone is a frowned upon thing by the people who actually connect up 3+ computers or not but i love it, so simple to use and very effective. It will save you alot of cash, i cant say if its better than haveing 3 computers connected together or not but theres no lagg between characters.
can be brought for just $10 from:-
http://solidice.com/keyclone/index.html
(best of all they take paypal)
ok so now i had my 3 accounts and everthing else i made 3 human warlocks, I went human as i feel the leveling zone is better than gnomes, and playing a sexy BE wasnt an option for me due to joining old friends on the realm.
soon as your in the game your no doubt going to be wondering where you start like i did, first thing i did from experimenting with the trial accounts was to make /follow and /assist macros on my sister warlocks put these in keys 1 and 2 and shadowbolt in 3. this let me tell my sister warlocks from the main warlock to follow her and target the same mob.
Leveling 1-10
Before you do anything else put your characters in a group and set loot on free for all sounds obvious but i forget it everytime i log in.
For leveling the first 10 levels i did all the quests in the starting area, it helps if you already knew them but if you didnt theres plenty of really good guides out there that will help you fly thru them. The gathering quests are the ones i hate more than any other at this point but they are worth doing in the starting areas, the mobs respawn pretty fast and you only need 6 shadow bolts (2 from each warlock) to kill pretty much anything.
Imp was a godsend i favoured it over voidwalker till about level 16 just use this macro tied to your shadow bolt.
/cast Shadowbolt(Rank 1)
/petattack
leveling 10-13
I went to Westfall and started doing most of the quests here theres some kill x amount quests which will help loads, but pretty much grinding any of the delfias at this level is an effective way to level they are spread out from level 12-16 in different areas of the map so you should always find somthing to kill. It got to the point where i wasnt looting the mobs becuase of the downtime involved, you should loot them but if you have a main on your realm with alot of gold dont bother just send the money over, and dont worry about the respawn times it shouldnt really effect it too badly. By this point i found the 2 keys before my shadow bolt was often leading to some problems of warlocks targeting the wrong target, so i now use this.
/assist main
/cast Shadowbolt(rank 1)
/petattack
Leveling 13-15
I had a ret paladin level 70, hes been such a god send he boosted me thru Deadmines quite a few times i pickey up tones of cash more cloth than i know what to do with it and loads of crappy greens which you can sell or vendor. Haveing a high level friend is somthing that will help you alot, even more so if they can clear Deadmines in 15-20 minutes, it took a few goes to get the distances right so i didnt aggro either from pats or what ever but we got it down, was rakeing in the xp 30-55 xp per elite kill, might sound no more than outside an instance killing normal mobs thats true, but a paladin can bring down about 30 mobs in one go any spec they just need a shield. If you dont have the option of instanceing then i would suggest grinding i did most of the quests pretty quickly in Westfall, so grinding is the best way to go, you get about 1000xp per quest done or you can kill a mob who gives you 40-50xp in a couple seconds its really up to you to make your mind up which is quicker.
leveling 15-17
My paladin friend wanted to take me to stockades now he even offered so nice of him, he spec'd prot and pretty much pulled the whole instance in one go, ran down the midle pulling out all of the cells and then went to the west wing then the east wing, then do what prot paladins do best till all were dead, the knock backs from the east wing will catch anyone with lesser gear or lower level off guard, but ive solo'd Stockades with my 50 prot paladin 4 cells at a time and clear in under 20 minutes. this is a great place to get some really really fast xp about 58 a kill and my friend was clearing the whole place in about 8 minutes (most of that time was from me looting), with 5 minute intervals for vendoring and repairs, the paladin was still getting alot of durability loss per run. we didnt reach the reset limit tho.
leveling 17-20
Went back to westfall to finnish off a couple of the last quests and did some grinding right to the south on the level 16 delfias mobs there, then went to Redridge and started to grind Gnolls for the quest to the south when i ran into my first pvp gank dam level 70 hunter troll thaught it was so funny just multi shotting my 3 locks dead. Came back later and grinded up to 20 on a few other quests in the area.
So thats me level 20 now with 3 locks going really well, i dont recomend trying this if you dont have the patience to level your characters, ive already gotten a hell of alot of help but i can already see how frustraighting this can be, its alot slower than leveling 1 character, but im sure it will pay off in the end :)
tips
dont waste money on getting better gear you find so much drops. save your gold for new skills.
ill try to keep this up to date with how i get on and ill try to keep a better track record of what quests i do what mobs i grind so i can complie a proper leveling guide.
Ive been playing wow since launch i already had a very good knowledge of the games mechanics.
problems i first ran into was on my old computer way too slow for this so if your going to try this make sure that your computer can handle running your desired amount of accounts i chose 3 simply due to the cost of keeping them active each month.
If you want to know if your computer can handle it or not make some trial accounts, they last ten days but you should know in the first 10 minutes of play if your computer can handle it.
EU gamers
https://signup.wow-europe.com/agreement.html;jsessionid=101a
US gamers
https://signup.worldofwarcraft.com/trial/10dayfreetrial.htm
Ok so now you know your computer will run your game, chooseing the class. here are some key factors to help you pick.
1/ previous knowledge, its going to help you make the right choice as leveling a class you have never played 2 or more times could back fire if you spend 10 days playing then deside that the class isnt what you expected.
2/ caster over melee, i felt this way purly becuase i didnt want the hassle of keeping 3 characters in melee range.
i chose warlock heres why.
1/ they all buff each other very nicely for example curse of shadows from one warlock will buff all 3's dps, also the improved life drain gives a warlock 5% more damage per affliction effect up to 60% might not sound alot but it will add up.
2/ pets can be a great asset, not kiteing etc my 3 warlocks had no problems clearing up the level 16 elites before DM at the same level with 2 voids tanking.
3/ pvp warlocks are deadly and as thats my main goal my own 3v3 team, ive never really liked depending on others in arena.
Ok next was the set up i dont know if keyclone is a frowned upon thing by the people who actually connect up 3+ computers or not but i love it, so simple to use and very effective. It will save you alot of cash, i cant say if its better than haveing 3 computers connected together or not but theres no lagg between characters.
can be brought for just $10 from:-
http://solidice.com/keyclone/index.html
(best of all they take paypal)
ok so now i had my 3 accounts and everthing else i made 3 human warlocks, I went human as i feel the leveling zone is better than gnomes, and playing a sexy BE wasnt an option for me due to joining old friends on the realm.
soon as your in the game your no doubt going to be wondering where you start like i did, first thing i did from experimenting with the trial accounts was to make /follow and /assist macros on my sister warlocks put these in keys 1 and 2 and shadowbolt in 3. this let me tell my sister warlocks from the main warlock to follow her and target the same mob.
Leveling 1-10
Before you do anything else put your characters in a group and set loot on free for all sounds obvious but i forget it everytime i log in.
For leveling the first 10 levels i did all the quests in the starting area, it helps if you already knew them but if you didnt theres plenty of really good guides out there that will help you fly thru them. The gathering quests are the ones i hate more than any other at this point but they are worth doing in the starting areas, the mobs respawn pretty fast and you only need 6 shadow bolts (2 from each warlock) to kill pretty much anything.
Imp was a godsend i favoured it over voidwalker till about level 16 just use this macro tied to your shadow bolt.
/cast Shadowbolt(Rank 1)
/petattack
leveling 10-13
I went to Westfall and started doing most of the quests here theres some kill x amount quests which will help loads, but pretty much grinding any of the delfias at this level is an effective way to level they are spread out from level 12-16 in different areas of the map so you should always find somthing to kill. It got to the point where i wasnt looting the mobs becuase of the downtime involved, you should loot them but if you have a main on your realm with alot of gold dont bother just send the money over, and dont worry about the respawn times it shouldnt really effect it too badly. By this point i found the 2 keys before my shadow bolt was often leading to some problems of warlocks targeting the wrong target, so i now use this.
/assist main
/cast Shadowbolt(rank 1)
/petattack
Leveling 13-15
I had a ret paladin level 70, hes been such a god send he boosted me thru Deadmines quite a few times i pickey up tones of cash more cloth than i know what to do with it and loads of crappy greens which you can sell or vendor. Haveing a high level friend is somthing that will help you alot, even more so if they can clear Deadmines in 15-20 minutes, it took a few goes to get the distances right so i didnt aggro either from pats or what ever but we got it down, was rakeing in the xp 30-55 xp per elite kill, might sound no more than outside an instance killing normal mobs thats true, but a paladin can bring down about 30 mobs in one go any spec they just need a shield. If you dont have the option of instanceing then i would suggest grinding i did most of the quests pretty quickly in Westfall, so grinding is the best way to go, you get about 1000xp per quest done or you can kill a mob who gives you 40-50xp in a couple seconds its really up to you to make your mind up which is quicker.
leveling 15-17
My paladin friend wanted to take me to stockades now he even offered so nice of him, he spec'd prot and pretty much pulled the whole instance in one go, ran down the midle pulling out all of the cells and then went to the west wing then the east wing, then do what prot paladins do best till all were dead, the knock backs from the east wing will catch anyone with lesser gear or lower level off guard, but ive solo'd Stockades with my 50 prot paladin 4 cells at a time and clear in under 20 minutes. this is a great place to get some really really fast xp about 58 a kill and my friend was clearing the whole place in about 8 minutes (most of that time was from me looting), with 5 minute intervals for vendoring and repairs, the paladin was still getting alot of durability loss per run. we didnt reach the reset limit tho.
leveling 17-20
Went back to westfall to finnish off a couple of the last quests and did some grinding right to the south on the level 16 delfias mobs there, then went to Redridge and started to grind Gnolls for the quest to the south when i ran into my first pvp gank dam level 70 hunter troll thaught it was so funny just multi shotting my 3 locks dead. Came back later and grinded up to 20 on a few other quests in the area.
So thats me level 20 now with 3 locks going really well, i dont recomend trying this if you dont have the patience to level your characters, ive already gotten a hell of alot of help but i can already see how frustraighting this can be, its alot slower than leveling 1 character, but im sure it will pay off in the end :)
tips
dont waste money on getting better gear you find so much drops. save your gold for new skills.
ill try to keep this up to date with how i get on and ill try to keep a better track record of what quests i do what mobs i grind so i can complie a proper leveling guide.